Exam 12: Family (in Core edition)

John and Monique are married.Both of their parents live with them,as does John's sister and brother-in-law and some nieces and nephews.This is known as a ____________ network.

Marital rates among blacks in the United States have declined since:

In what year were laws prohibiting interracial marriage struck down in the United States?

Talcott Parsons and other functionalists argued that the nuclear family was necessary in modern industrial society.Problems with the functionalist argument are highlighted in which of the research findings below?

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the notion of traditional family (stay-at-home mom and working father)in U.S.history?

Discuss the main findings from research on the chore wars-the gendered division of household labor-as studied by Hochschild (1989,2003)and Zelizer (2005).

Which of the following nations practices a rigid adherence to endogamy?

If Jerome is opposed to the idea of having a relationship with someone who lives in his dormitory,which he jokingly refers to as "dorm-cest," he is practicing the rule known as:

Define what Barbara Risman calls fair families and give two examples of the potential benefits of these types of families.

The contemporary belief that work life and family life are separate spheres emerged with the Industrial Revolution.With this shift came the expectation that family life was women's domain and work life was men's domain.Lingering notions of separate spheres continue to shape men's and women's experiences today.Provide four examples of how this notion shapes (or could shape)men's and women's lives differently.

In families where both spouses work for wages,the second shift can best be described as:

In terms of cross-cultural family forms,which of the following statements is true?

Define what Hochschild and others call the supermom strategy,and discuss one possible negative consequence.

Aries wrote that children of preindustrial families were:

Which of the following statements is true concerning the domestic world of Ozzie and Harriet portrayed in the 1950s television program?

Sociologists generally concur that the effect of divorce on children:

A powerful example of the devaluation of housework in the United States was the original September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.Ultimately,after feminist groups lobbied the U.S.government,what happened?

In the 1950s,which of the following structural functionalists identified the traditional nuclear family model as a functional necessity in modern industrial society?

Who of the following has argued that African American female-headed families are the outcome,rather than the cause,of racial oppression and poverty?

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild (1980)has found that many women who would traditionally be expected to take care of the home and children also try to have a career.She calls this the: